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Ex-PM Saad Hariri heads a meeting of the Future bloc in Beirut on Tuesday. NNA

Consultations to Appoint New PM Kick Off, Future Movement and Aoun Support Hariri

by Caroline Akoum | Nov 2, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-The Presidential Palace in Baabda will open its doors on Wednesday for the binding parliamentary consultations to appoint a new premier, already settled to be former Prime Minister and head of the Future Movement MP Saad Hariri. While most parties expect the...

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Reuters file photo shows FPM founder Michel Aoun arriving at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, near Beirut, to attend a session of the national dialogue

Lebanon Readies for Monday’s Presidential Election

by Caroline Akoum | Oct 27, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-Preparations are underway to welcome at Baabda Palace Lebanon’s new president who will certainly be Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun after a more than two-year vacuum at the country’s top post. Aoun will most likely be elected during a parliament...

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Moscow Rules Out a New Truce in Aleppo

by Caroline Akoum | Oct 25, 2016 | Middle East

Opposition factions have completed preparations for the launch of the battle to lift the siege on Aleppo according to the legal adviser for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Osama Abu Zeid. He told Asharq Al-Awsat “Aleppo will be the battle of the revolution” and that “We...

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Syrian Regime Displaces Opposition Fighters From Al-Hamah

by Caroline Akoum | Oct 15, 2016 | Middle East

The last group of people who migrated from the town of Al-Hamah in the Rif Dimashq governorate near the Syrian capital arrived in the Idlib governorate yesterday morning. According to the Syrian opposition, the operation to evacuate another suburb, the Qudsiya suburb,...

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Aleppo: Two Largest Hospitals and a Bread Distribution Centre Are Bombed

by Caroline Akoum | Sep 29, 2016 | Middle East

The two largest hospitals and a bread distribution centre in Aleppo were bombed by the Syrian regime and Russia on the tenth day of the military campaign on Aleppo. A number of people died and were wounded, and a civil defence official in the city warned that daily...